All that we see as fearful is, in truth, God. Welcome it and be set free. -- My note to myself from 2017.
Knowing that from my eyebrows up in 2017 was no doubt a great comfort to me. It's a comfort to me today, but I recognize it today as a comfort to my reasoning...fearful...mind and it is momentary. It is living it that is a whole 'nother matter...being not of self but of God.
There lives the difference between material truth and spiritual truth, the forever paradox.
If it be a walking around truth, we must live it...yet it is willfully living it that takes its toll. The more we try, the harder we crash...if we are doing it right. Paraphrasing Fr Richard, we've got to do it wrong to get it right.
We know we must try with a will or fall by the wayside...unknowing, we learn that trying unto falling by the wayside is the way to crash and burn. There's our ah-ha moment. Crash and burn is the rough and rutted road leading us to God and the difference between resignation and acceptance.
Yes, we must try...to not try is to quit, to resign ourself to feeling ever alone...no hope, no peace, no God. It is that belief in our will that must crash and burn...our belief in our fiercely trying will blocks acceptance of God and his will for us.
God's will...which reasoning mind cannot decipher, cannot translate, cannot fathom and which we pray to accept. Here's grace: The spiritual gift, full realization, of our acceptance comes after the fact when we are living it...in gratitude and wonder.
It is I: be not afraid, - John 6:20
Thank you.
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